A WORKER has been airlifted to hospital with serious injuries after an incident at a factory in Cookley this morning.

At around 8.30am this morning (May 3) West Midlands Ambulance Service and Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service crews from Kidderminster fire station were called to the factory in Bridge Road, in Cookley, where a man had got their leg trapped in machinery.

He suffered a serious leg injury in the incident.

A spokesman from WMAS said: "The man had been injured when a high pressure hydraulic line broke hitting him on the left leg.

"He suffered a serious injury which was initally treated at the scene by ambulance staff.

"He was then taken to the air ambulance before being airlifted to the Queen Elizabeth, in Birmingham, where a vascular surgeon had been requested to be on standby."

A rapid response vehicle was first on the scene backed up by an ambulance, a senior paramedic officer and the Midlands Air Ambulance from Cosford, which landed on the nearby cricket and football pitches.